Description

This 20 page briefing paper and its accompanying support activities are part of the Food Rights Now education and awareness campaign for young people and is designed to provide a set of briefing notes on:

different dimensions of world hunger today (definition, measurement, who’s at risk, causes and debates) in addition to

providing an annotated guide to readings

relevant online sources of information

a set of suggested activities for introducing and exploring the issue of hunger

It can be used flexibly to support the teaching of geography (and other subjects) at Junior and Senior Cycle

The Hunger Map is an interactive support companion to the briefing paper. It can be downloaded, ordered as a poster or accessed as an interactive map online. The map includes key definitions of hunger and malnutrition, statistics and the geography of undernourishment.

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